WORKERS at Jaguar Land Rover have donated more than £6,000 from their salaries to help three charities.

Hundreds of staff opted to give up some of their wages in aid of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, The Excellence Academy, and Attleborough Grange care home, in Nuneaton.

Bosses at Jaguar matched the amount their employees donated.

Les Ratcliffe, community relations manager and chair of the employee committee for Jaguar, said: “Workers make requests for which charities they wish the money to go towards and the committee then choose three of them which we feel are most deserving.

“There are no hard or fast rules about which ones we choose but this year Attleborough care home was one of the charities that we felt hasn’t had the same amount of attention as others.

"We decided to choose the charities which were local to us. It’s a popular scheme which hundreds of workers take part in and it will go towards those who need it most.”